Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 10
Author: Patrick May

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Linode is used across the entire organization. We host both for our website and our REST servers on Linode instances. Linode provides us with reliable hosting at a reasonable price.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Reliability. Linode has very little downtime and announces in advance when updates will be required.
Price. Linode is great value for money. The costs are easy to understand compared to AWS and GCP.
Service. Linode improves the specs of instances automatically, without increasing cost.

Return on Investment

Linode simply does what it says on the box. Reliability is a major benefit. We don't need to worry about Linode.
When new hardware becomes available, Linode is proactive about improving what they offer at each price point.

We have considered both AWS and Google Cloud. We are sticking with Linode because we're comfortable administering our systems and don't need the global scale (and corresponding cost) of the bigger cloud platforms. As noted previously, Linode is a great solution for organizations of our size and requirements.

Support Rating

Linode has excellent documentation, their web portal is straightforward to use, they keep customers informed by email without unnecessary contact, and they respond quickly to questions.

Other Software Used

Rackspace Managed Hosting, Google App Engine

Likelihood to Recommend

Linode is fantastic for people who are reasonably comfortable with managing their own servers but who don't want the cost and effort of either on-premises or colocated machines. It is easier to use than AWS, the offerings are more understandable, and the costs are more predictable.

Linode may not be as well suited to less technical users, but I haven't tried their offerings in that area.

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